“Wreck-It Ralph” First Images

This week we are getting our first look at Disney’s next animated feature, Wreck-It Ralph. USA Today got the exclusive first pics from Rich Moore’s film – and the teaser trailer should be online tomorrow. I’m actually excited about this film, because from all indications it will be a big change from the traditional fairy tales and animal adventures Disney has been producing of late. The film re-teams director Moore (from The Simpsons and Futurama) with writer Jim Reardon (Simpsons, Tiny Toons, Bakshi’s Mighty Mouse… not to mention, Wall-E), bringing a new comic sensibility to the studio. Bring it on!

The full image also has characters from Street Fighter, Resident Evil zombies and what looks like Deku Scrub Link. This is basically Roger Rabbit with video games.

http://www.patnlewis.com Pat Lewis

Or Toy Story.

Ermy

Where is the movie about cereal box and merchandising mascots?

Chris Sobieniak

Sad to see the ol’ Q on such hard times. He doesn’t need a cherry, just one of those green balls to get him through the day!

wever

I assume a lot of old video game characters are unfortunately in the same situation.

Michael Sheehan

A pretty full trailer screened with Ratatouille (and presumably other Pixar films) during the AMC screenings on Memorial Day weekend. Seemed very charming, fun, and looked great. A group therapy session featured Bowser, Pac-Man ghosts, Q-Bert and Ralph among others. Pretty lengthy trailer, and it expressed the full story pretty clearly. Looking forward to this.

http://saturnome.blogspot.com/ Sat

This is looking very good, not to mention that it’s world of 1970s-80s-90s video games characters is very appealing to me. Roger Rabbit of video games indeed. Though I wonder how well known any of these characters are to the general public.

Tedzey

Pretty exciting. I especially like how they captured Jane Lynchs likeness in the second picture!

Do I also spy the dinosaur from “Meet The Robinsons” in the first one? Top of the picture, coming out of a doorway like place?

AJ 2010

It could be Bubs or Bob from bubble bobble I forget which ones which.

http://dailygrail.com/ Red Pill Junkie

Looks puzzling, but I hope it doesn’t just exploit elements of the geek culture to attract audiences.

Sarah J

Agreed, I hate this whole “pandering to nerds” thing the media has been doing a lot lately.

axolotl

Yeah! They should spend more time pandering to jocks and cheerleaders!

http://dailygrail.com/ Red Pill Junkie

I’m a nerd, so if it’s HONEST pandering, then I’m all for it ;)

Mapache

Looks like something -by nerds for nerds-. Those are the kind of people who did never really care about being nerds. Not like working for Ralph Bakshi or Matt Groening was mainstream then.

Austin Papageorge

Which episodes of The Simpsons did Jim Reardon write? I thought he was only a director.

Billy Batz

Jim Reardon was a Supervising Producer/Director on the Simpsons as well, he is a film genius!

http://ryanrosendal.blogspot.com Ryan

Man, if you had told me Rich Moore would be directing a Disney animated feature and Jim Reardon would be his head of story, I don’t think I would have believed you. What a crazy project this is.

http://www.oddballcomics.com Scott Shaw!

Ralph looks like Li’l Abner after he’s been exposed to gamma rays!

John A

Actually, he reminds me of “Primitive Pete”the caveman (from an old Disney safety film) which resembled an young Ward Kimball caricature.

Kristjan Birnir

Not sure about this film, wreck sound slike we are in for disaster. What needs happen to convince disney to stick with hand drawn animation.

Steve

Tangled made a lot of money (600 mil worldwide). Princess and the Frog and Pooh didn’t.

Also, I wouldn’t bet on the success or failure of a film based on whether or not the title contains the word “Wreck.”

Honestly, this sounds like a hit.

Sarah J

Disney was hoping that The Princess and the Frog would reach Lion King levels of success, which is hard to top. The movie did well, but due to competition from a few other movies at the time, it wasn’t as successful as it could have been. Main problem was that Disney was holding it to too-high standards. (Winnie the Pooh, they hardly gave that movie any advertising, of course it wasn’t going to do well) If traditional animation is to make a comeback, a traditionally animated movie needs to become a big hit.

http://www.kellytindall.com/ Kelly Tindall

Looks good to me. I love the 8-bit posters.

A Writer

You can see Chun-Li and Zangief walking by Q-bert, and if you comb the background you can find M. Bison.

Julian

“Wreck it Ralph”, does this main character guy have anything to do with Ralph Bakshi? Because I swear he reminds me of that gross slob in Adult Party Cartoon.

http://hobsonproductions.blogspot.com/ Kevin

I can’t wait to see the trailer! It looks like it’s going to be good!

Gerry

This movie will prove to Hollywood how big an audience exists for 1980s gaming references. Potentially quite massive. Sports the stench of a hit but how big? If it delivers look for a decade of cheap knock-offs.

Chris Sobieniak

Oh thanks for being obvious there, I can’t wait! (being sarcastic of course)

E. Nygma

Pixar and Disney are getting harder and harder to tell apart ever since Bolt.

Julian Carter

Why?

I think they’re very different. I hope it stays that way.

E. Nygma

Why? because they look the same. I mean that as a good thing to me. I have liked the last few Disney movies, and I love Pixar, but you can tell they are being tied together even closer.

Kristjan Birnir

Thats quite a sad thing,

http://www.portfolio-powell.blogspot.com Chris Powell

SO. EXCITED.

tredlow

I love how the stars are people I like from very adult projects.

http://www.daryl-rhystaylor.co.uk DarylT

I like it.

Lib

This film really needed to have a pixel art look.

bones

How the hell are they getting the rights to these Nintendo characters? It seems like Nintendo keeps a very tight reign over their copyrighted characters.

Well, however they did it, I can’t wait to see it.

Tredlow

Nintendo saw what Toy Story did to all those toy franchises. Yes, this ain’t Pixar, but it’s pretty close.